Made it back from Canada with no issues. It was great being there and showing my wife around a bit of the city. We had a lot of fun. We went up the CN Tower. I forgot that I’m afraid of extreme heights. Scary! We ventured into Chinatown on Spadina and Dundas and then wandered over to Kensington Market. We hung around in the Annex for a while. I took her to some of my favourite places like Horseshoe Tavern, Green Room, and Sneaky Dee’s. We did a little shopping, of course. It was a really nice vacation.
We also, looked at a couple of properties while we were there. We were thoroughly disappointed with them. The lofts were nice but one was too small and the other had a horrible layout. The detached house was just a mess. Looked great from the outside but the inside was just no good. I will spare you the horrid details except for one. The place was four bedrooms with one bathroom. WTF!
Anyway, I’m heading back up there in June for some business. I’m going to the VMware Forum. Planning to stay with a friend this trip. Should be another fun time. I’ve asked to head to San Francisco at the end of the summer to attend VMworld, too. That should be a really cool conference if I can go. I’ve been wanting to go for a few years now.
In any case, I’m glad that we took off for the weekend and I hope that everyone else had a great long weekend.
Well, I finally sent a shot across the bow of my boss. Told him that I don’t find my current responsibilities reasonable. Then told him that I don’t find my compensation for my efforts reflects what I actually do for the company. Ball’s in his court. We’ll see how this pans out.
The way I see it right now? Either he gives me more money and makes sure that I’m happy or I hand in my resignation. I can’t work like this anymore.
I’ve been busting my ass on this stupid set of servers that we have at work. They provide an anti-SPAM service for us and a group of about twenty clients. When they work, they work great. However, when the don’t work it’s a huge pain to fix them up. I’ve been at it for the better part of the passed week. I’m out sick one day and it seems that nobody has really done anything. They just got worse while I lay in bed feeling sorry for myself. I’m doing a big software upgrade operation on them this evening. Hopefully that helps them out a bit.
In other news, the new lodge website is coming along. I don’t know how my copy guy is doing but hopefully we have some content that I can work with soon. I’m kind of afraid that we’re not going to have anything for launch. We had a conversation about how I have a problem with delegating things to other people while discussing the new build. Now, I remember why I don’t delegate very often. Things don’t get done.
In other news, the Bermuda International Invitational Race Week is going to wrap up tomorrow. I’ll be volunteering tomorrow as I did on Sunday. The racing has been pretty intense out there. We’ve had some strong winds and one of the boats even sank. The J105 team that I’ve sailed with has already won their portion of the regatta. The rest of the fleets are still out there battling it out. I’m looking forward to seeing how the races go tomorrow. If you haven’t been paying attention to it then you can catch up on their website.
Well, the Lodge St. George website is back on the project list. My good friend and brother decided to get on board the tech/marketing train with me and he’s pushing to get version 1.0 out there. Currently, www.lodgestgeorge.org has an RSS feed and an e-mail subscription that you can sign up to receive. If you’re at all interested in freemasonry in Bermuda then check it out. If you’re interested in Lodge St. George, the oldest chartered lodge in Bermuda, then check it out. There’s going to eventually be some very cool information and images posted soon.
We’re planning on opening the site up with new photos of the 2010 Peppercorn Ceremony. There will also be information on the history of the lodge and our building in the Town of St. George. Once that is all up we are looking to have more information and photos to follow. There will be things like specific stories of fraternal help between brothers and more photos of the lodge.
Hope to see you visiting and keeping up to date with the site soon.
Well, it seems that every time I sit down to work on the documentation for this bloody thing, I find something that I’d like to add to it. And like an idiot I do something that breaks the perfectly working website and cause myself more work. Why? Because I’m a bloody fool. I wish I could just get this over with. I’m sure the client would like to have this over with now. I just want to be done and hand it over so that I can get paid and can get some sleep.
This time, I decided to add a CAPTCHA feature. This would be an alright idea if the module that I installed actually worked. It would have been an even better idea to stay logged into the site and tested the CAPTCHA feature with a different browser window using a different user name. So, here I am, trying to role back my website to four hours ago in order to try to get back to work on what I should be doing, which is just documenting what’s already there. Not building new features.
Do I fee like a jackass? Yeah, just a bit. Screw it. I’m going to lay down with my wife for a bit and hope that I can sleep. Then I’m going to get to work on this super early so that I can send it off to the client before heading to the Peppercorn Ceremony. Hopefully the restore doesn’t take very long.
Things have gotten closer to the Sun.
Well, it wasn’t the best day ever in all of history but it certainly was a good one today. My mother-in-law is here. That means that my wife is happy. That means I can relax and be happy. This is a huge relief for me.
My squash match today was a blow out. I won three games in a row. I actually would take mini breaks during the games where I wouldn’t bother trying much and he would get a few points. Then I’d take the service back and beat him into submission. He actually started whining about the way that I was playing the game. Said that I was making too many short shots. He does this fairly often. Complains that I don’t want to run for the ball but it’s him that’s not running for the shots that I’m making. In any case, it felt good to put him in his place. He was on cloud nine after our last match because he won three games to my two. However, last time I had been racing on an Etchell the day before and my index and middle fingers were shredded. Not to mention, I was running fore deck so I was very sore from the effort I had made. And he only beat me by one game. In fact, the two games he won before the tie breaker were because I was tired and sore and basically gave them away without even trying. OK, I’m done patting myself on the back.
I’m not sailing competitively this weekend. Hopefully I’ll be taking out my mother-in-law on my friend Ian’s boat. I think she’d get a kick out of it. I’m not sure how much sailing she’s done in her lifetime. She’s also attending the Agricultural Exhibition tomorrow. We’ll be taking her around to different parts of the island over the weekend. It should be a fun time.
Hope that everyone else has a good weekend lined up!
It seems that I’m burning the midnight oil once again. I can’t wait until this week is over. Then again, I’ll still have to entertain my mother-in-law while she’s here. She’s a nice woman and all but I kind of wish that I could just relax a little bit this weekend. I’m sure that I’ll have fun, though.
I’m not sailing this weekend. The J/105 boat that I crew on sometimes is taking out their Race Week crew, which is fine. I’ve volunteered for a support role on a couple of days. Should just be out in a crash boat making sure that everyone is fine and maybe have to move a marker at some point. Should be a fun time.
The Regiment website is so close to being finished that I can taste it. It should have been done a month ago, probably. I’ve been having some personal issues and my day job has been taking up quite a bit more of my time lately. In any case, there are just a couple of things that I want to get finished so that they are happy and I can invoice them for the project. Then we can all be happy cheerful people. Major problem that I’m having right now is getting the WYSIWYG editor to work properly. The bloody thing just doesn’t want to work. I really wish that Drupal just had one built in like Joomla or WordPress. Silly me. I thought that building this site in Drupal would be a good idea. It’s more modular. The White House uses it for their website! What could go wrong?
Anyway, I need to get back to work so that I can finish up at a reasonable hour and try to get an hour or two of sleep.
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Well, I got absolutely no web work done. Not one bit. I went out sailing on Saturday. This is the cause of all of my woes for the rest of the weekend. I was so beat up and sore for the rest of the weekend. I have some nice chunks out of my index and middle fingers on my right hand from working the jib on the Etchell that I was sailing. In case you’re interested, make sure you purchase some good gloves for serious sailing. I made the mistake of thinking that I still had tough hands.
After working my butt off on that boat, I woke up the next morning sore as all hell. Unfortunately, I had a squash game to attend at 9:30 in the morning. I didn’t do as well as I could have without a busted up hand and a sore body. He won three games to two. Funny thing is that he bragged about it even though he didn’t beat me by that much and I pretty much gave away two games because I was so exhausted from the day before and wanted to rest.
In any case, I have another website project that I’m trying to finish up tonight. If I don’t get it done then they’ve told me that they’re going to drop my services and find somebody else. Totally my fault. I’ve been slacking. Well, I’ve had my reasons. Personal and professional life have gotten in the way of finishing up. Anyway, I need to get back to work. I’ll start work on this site tomorrow evening.
Well, I had planned to start working on the teaser image and first page for the all new comic for a little while tonight. It appears that there’s something wrong with my Wacom stylus. I’m going to try to borrow one for somebody this weekend but we’ll see what happens. I’m really sorry about this. I guess the bloody thing got beat up a little bit because my cat has knocked it off my desk several times. I’m really embarrassed and even disappointed. I was hoping to do a bunch of work for the site this weekend.
In the meantime, I’ll probably just work on editing the theme of the site so that it doesn’t look so generic. Don’t know how far along I’ll be able to come along with that but wish me luck!
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Welcome to the new comic layout for Griftart.com. This going to change a bit soon since this is the default look for Comicpress Silver. I’m looking to do a weekly comic. Probably just one page at a time. I’ll be adding a gallery of stuff soon too. Most of it will be old to start off but I’ll be adding new stuff as it’s produced. The comic will be posted every Monday. If I miss one week, be sure to send me a rude e-mail letting me know how much of a flakey little bitch I am.
